Google search head warns against “hallucinogenic” AI chatbots: report

Berlin:

The boss of Google’s search engine warned against the pitfalls of artificial intelligence in chatbots in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, as Google parent company Alphabet battles to compete with blockbuster app ChatGPT.

Prabhakar Raghavan, Google’s senior vice president and head of Google Search, told Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper, “The kind of artificial intelligence we’re talking about now can sometimes be something we call hallucinations.” They say.”

“It then expresses itself in such a way that a machine gives a concrete but completely made-up answer,” Raghavan said in comments published in German. One of the fundamental tasks, he said, was to keep it to a minimum.

Google has been on the back foot after OpenAI, a startup Microsoft is backing with nearly $10 billion, introduced ChatGPT in November, which has since impressed users with its human-like responses to user queries .

Alphabet Inc introduced Bard, its own chatbot, earlier this week, but the software shared misinformation in a promotional video that cost the company $100 billion in market value on Wednesday.

Alphabet, which is still conducting user testing on Bard, has not yet indicated when the app might go public.

“We obviously feel an urgency, but we also feel a great responsibility,” Raghavan said. “We certainly don’t want to mislead the public.”

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